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# cellar

noun (a cellar, cellars)

«cellar» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A cellar is a room under a house or building, below the ground, often used for storage. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cellar/#m1)
2. A wine cellar is a place where wine is stored, or the wine itself. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cellar/#m2)

### In the lessons

In everyday life cellars store coal, food, wine, tools or old things; they are cool and dark. In stories cellars are often spooky, hidden places. In geography and safety, people in places with tornadoes shelter in a storm cellar. Phrase: «from cellar to attic» (the whole house).

### Examples

- We keep the bikes in the cellar. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cellar/#x1)
- It was dark and damp down in the cellar. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cellar/#x2)
- They hid in the storm cellar during the tornado. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cellar/#x3)
- The old castle had a huge wine cellar. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cellar/#x4)
- A spooky noise came from the cellar. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cellar/#x5)
- Potatoes keep well in a cool cellar. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cellar/#x6)
- The cellars were full of wine. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cellar/#x7)

### Note

Countable: cellars. Homophone: seller (a person who sells). Similar word: basement (often used as a living space). Opposite end of the house: attic (loft).

## In Jewish tradition

It means a storehouse for wine and oil, kept as royal treasure under David's officers.

**Interpretation.** The list shows that David's kingdom was well run, with officials over each kind of produce. Tradition values such order as part of a just government.

### Examples

- and over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite; and over the increase of the vineyards for the wine-cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite; (Writings 1CH.27.27, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cellar/#x1)
- and over the olive-trees and the sycomore-trees that were in the Lowland was Baal-hanan the Gederite; and over the cellars of oil was Joash; (Writings 1CH.27.28, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cellar/#x2)

### Note

Countable: cellars. Homophone: seller (a person who sells). Similar word: basement (often used as a living space). Opposite end of the house: attic (loft).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «cellar» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cellar/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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- [Trees and pragmatics of «cellar» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cellar/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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